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Stratton Auto Sales, N. Main St., Bluffton, has a pre-winter care care special.

For only $109 customers receive:

• Oil and filter change
• 4-tire rotation and inspection
• anti-freeze drain and refill
• Balance 4 tires
• Battery/charging system check
• Heating system check

 

ArtSpace/Lima announces the second in its fall series of Soup and Salad Lectures, Industry in Art, in connection with the Industrial Ohio exhibit now in the Ellen Nelson Gallery.

Here's a scary thought: Will the number of snowfalls in one winter equal the date that the first snowfall fell in the season?

If so, we are in for 28 snowfalls during the winter of 2012-13. (On Oct. 28 was recorded 1.1 inches of snow.) Guy Verhoff, Pandora weather observer, didn't confirm that fact, but did provide a summary of the October weather. Here goes:

Isabel Castillo, co-founder of the National Immigrant Youth Alliance and founder of DREAM Activist Virginia, will be at Bluffton University Tuesday, Nov. 13, to share her experiences as an undocumented youth and community activist.
Free and open to the public, Castillo’s presentation, “Undocumented and Unafraid: Personal Lessons from Community Organizing,” will begin at 11 a.m. in Founders Hall.

Castillo, who has lived in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley for 21 years, advocates for immigrant rights and young students across Virginia and the nation.

 

Katie Wineland, a Bluffton University senior from Gibsonburg, placed second recently in this year’s binational C. Henry Smith Oratorical Contest.

Her runner-up effort earned the biblical studies major a $225 cash prize and a scholarship to attend a peace-related conference or seminar.

 

Genevieve Marie Leightner, 97, of Pandora died at 8:15 am Nov. 1, 2012, at Bluffton Hospital. She was born Feb. 24, 1915, in Toledo to Edward Guy and Maude Murbach Dilgart. On Sept. 16, 1939, she married Clinton Edward Leightner and he preceded her in death on Sept. 9, 2004.

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